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Dec 1, 2008 21:59:06 GMT 1
Post by Sam Bellis on Dec 1, 2008 21:59:06 GMT 1
Feel free to make your own threads people
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rainbow
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Dec 1, 2008 23:48:11 GMT 1
Post by rainbow on Dec 1, 2008 23:48:11 GMT 1
Hey all, this is rainbow and I'm happy to be here I'm a teacher in Manhattan
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Dec 1, 2008 23:50:39 GMT 1
Post by Sam Bellis on Dec 1, 2008 23:50:39 GMT 1
Welcome Rainbow! What subject do you teach?
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Dec 2, 2008 18:00:57 GMT 1
Post by smitten on Dec 2, 2008 18:00:57 GMT 1
Hi everyone, hey AR, good to see you! I'll introduce myself here. I'm Scottish, live in Scotland, and have been addicted to 24 for - well, since season 5, like Clara. I like chatting about 24 because it helps keep the withdrawal symptoms at bay, and because I do like to think that the production team check the internet every now and then for feedback. I'm married, I have school-age kids and two jobs: I'm a midwife and a breastfeeding counsellor. I'll explain a little about that because I know that a lot of people here won't know what that means. As a midwife I care for women in normal, healthy pregnancy and birth, and mums and babies in the time immediately after birth. I've just learned that midwifery is illegal in some States and little-used throughout the US, but here midwives are the lead-carers for women if all is well. We only call in the docs if they are needed. Then as a breastfeeding counsellor I give information and support, mostly to breastfeeding mothers, and I run parentcraft courses for couples. And I can't wait till January...
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Dec 2, 2008 19:30:28 GMT 1
Post by Sam Bellis on Dec 2, 2008 19:30:28 GMT 1
Same here Smitten! (about the can't wait bit, I'm not a midwife or breast feeder thingy).
How can midwifery be illegal? Isn't a necessary part of pregnancy care?
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Dec 2, 2008 21:23:45 GMT 1
Post by smitten on Dec 2, 2008 21:23:45 GMT 1
How can midwifery be illegal? Isn't a necessary part of pregnancy care? Necessary? My opinion? Yes! But in the US they like doctors and obstetric nurses. Midwifes only attend 8% of births in the US. I've been reading this book about it, and saw a film made by Rikki Lake. It's horrific. Midwives are trained in normal birth. Doctors are trained in sickness and injury. So.with doctors in charge, they have high rates of intervention, and high rates of maternal and infant death, for an industrialised country. If I was pregnant in America, I'd nip across the border to Canada for the birth. They have good midwives there!
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Dec 2, 2008 21:25:51 GMT 1
Post by Sam Bellis on Dec 2, 2008 21:25:51 GMT 1
Good plan or you could just come to the greatest country in the world. England. *hums God Save The Queen*
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Dec 2, 2008 21:54:35 GMT 1
Post by clara! on Dec 2, 2008 21:54:35 GMT 1
Good plan or you could just come to the greatest country in the world. England. *hums God Save The Queen* i'm not quite sure you're correct about that i'm so unpatriotic. but smitten, i bet your job is so interesting and fulfilling
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Dec 2, 2008 21:59:46 GMT 1
Post by Sam Bellis on Dec 2, 2008 21:59:46 GMT 1
Good plan or you could just come to the greatest country in the world. England. *hums God Save The Queen* i'm not quite sure you're correct about that i'm so unpatriotic. but smitten, i bet your job is so interesting and fulfilling Must be rather fulfilling mustn't it? Alll these new babies. But at the same time, couldn't it be heartbreaking?
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Dec 2, 2008 22:04:34 GMT 1
Post by clara! on Dec 2, 2008 22:04:34 GMT 1
it could, i'd get so attached to them all, and if there was a miscarriage, that would be horrible.
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